Mt. Hood Film Fest

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Catch over 10 hours of incredible films in the Film Festival Theater and VIP Lounge. Featured films include: the Portland premieres of Matchstick Productions’ latest All In and Hoji; plus Far Out by Teton Gravity Research, Travis Rice, Leanne Pelosi, Connections Movement, Greg Stump, Pierce Hodges, Traveling Line Circus and many others.

Film Festival Schedule:

Friday, October 19th

5:30 ON3P 3

6:00Yūgen by Connections Movement

7:00Sammy C Project by Teton Gravity Research

8:00Far Out by Teton Gravity Research

Saturday, October 20th

12:30Line Traveling Circus 2017/18 Series

1:15Full Moon by Leanne Pelosi

2:15 Mt Hood Meadows 50th Anniversary

2:30Here After by Tanner Hall

3:00 Encore showing of Far Out by Teton Gravity Research

4:15Depth Perception by Travis Rice

5:30Blizzard of Aahh’s 30th Anniversary

7:00Hoji Portland Premier by Matchstick Productions

8:00All In Portland Premier by Matchstick Productions

2018 Film Movies:

ALL IN – Matchstick Productions 2018 epic ski film delivers a first of its kind experience. This concept is spearheaded by a talented group of hard-charging women who wanted to disrupt the male-dominated ski film formula. Skiing isn’t exclusionary, true fun in the mountains can be shared equally by everyone. This isn’t your typical “Women can shred too” film, this is a kick-ass ski film that just happens to feature as many women as men.

Directed by Scott Gaffney, this film will embody the spirit of past Matchstick films with high-action ski segments, visually stunning imagery and engaging humor. Shot in exotic locations over the course of 2018, ALL IN will excite skiers across the globe. Follow the crew from the lift-accessed terrain of Snowbird to the dreamworlds of Japan and Alaska amplified by a soundtrack that will be on everyone’s ski playlist next year. This film is light on story, high on action and full of fun loving personality. ALL IN is a reference to the commitment the athletes have to their sport while simultaneously alluding to the inclusionary nature of skiing.

Far Out embodies the imagination as much as it does a physical space. It is the quest to seek out undiscovered realms and inspire new waves of creativity, enlightenment, and progression. It is the quest to be blown away.

Join the TGR crew on one of its boldest missions ever. The film follows the perspective of an athlete as he embarks on a journey to one of the most remote and unexplored mountain ranges on the planet, the Albanian Alps. While the final destination appears to be the ultimate goal, it is the collective of athletes, experiences, and the array of locations around the world that inevitably drive the season’s adventure. Witness mind-bending pillow lines as the crew camps out deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. Experience urban madness in Kamchatka and the insanity of the Crazy Mountains in Montana. Join the crew in the Slovenian Alps for over-the-head cold smoke and watch an 11-year-old rip Jackson Hole. Discover the alien landscape of Girdwood, Alaska in January and see Sean Jordan ride into Crested Butte on a black stallion to shred the Southern Rockies. Find out if the wildest and most untamed mountains in Europe let us in, and if the ultimate destination became a reality.

In honor of having Sammy Carlson in attendance as a Snowvana athlete this year, we will be re-screening his 2015 TGR film.

In 2014, after winning 5 X Games medals, Sammy Carlson abruptly stepped away from competition and dropped out of the Olympic rat race–even as slopestyle skiing was about to make its Winter Olympic debut. Instead, Sammy decided to pursue a new path that would push him and the sport of skiing to new places at all costs.

Sammy’s newfound focus landed in the backcountry, where his drive and creativity could max out far beyond the limits of preset slopestyle courses. The veritable freestyle onslaught that followed–on the world’s mountains, and even on a 240 foot-tall ski flying ramp in Michigan–was unlike any seen before, and would net Sammy three straight X Games Real Ski Backcountry gold medals. The Sammy C Projectdocuments Sammy’s mastery of a new direction for skiing, and shows how convention should never stop you from pursuing the path you believe in.

Eric Hjorleifson lets his skiing speak for itself. He doesn’t stand on the bar and shout out his accolades. He skis for brands that give him 100% creative control over the equipment that he designs and uses. He chases storms. He ditches his cell phone for weeks at a time.His exploits are rarely flaunted on social media. In spite of all of this – or maybe because of it – he is a hero to legions of skiers across the globe. This is who Eric is – this is “HOJI.”

Yūgen is a 3-year borderless mountain-based documentary film that explores the connection we as mountaineers and environmentalists share with the natural world. Following the journey of snowboard mountaineer Rafael Pease and crew as they travel throughout the corners of the world, trudging gear into unseen locations the crew works tirelessly to capture the true essence of being one with the mountain. Experiencing the most unique untold stories of the ecological conscious that resides deep in the soul of the mountains, told through the perspective of legendary humans who coincide in these very places.

Be inspired by women who push boundaries. FULL MOON showcases the legends, current icons and future prodigies of this ever-evolving lifestyle sport. Seven of the world’s best female snowboarders join forces for the first time ever to explore their backyard, the backcountry of magnificent British Columbia. We are inspired through the intimate, heart-felt stories through the eyes of some of the most influential females in our sport. Full Moon is a two-year film project documenting the past, present, and future of women’s snowboarding. For the first time, some of the best women riders in the sport will work together as a crew to push their limits and capture the camaraderie and adventure that comes with it. Through interviews and resurrected classic footage, Leanne Pelosi directs a film that pays tribute to the history of women’s snowboarding and showcases how it has influenced and encouraged the current state of the sport.

With his latest oeuvre, Travis Rice goes back to his roots, and instead of worldwide travel to exotic destinations and deep storytelling, he stays closer to home and puts the full breadth of his talent on display. From soulful powder runs to impressive backcountry freestyle and seriously steep big mountain lines, Rice masters the feats with ease and proves once more that he’s a true hard-charger – fast, fearless and ready to go absolutely huge. Accompanied by an equally versatile crew: Austen Sweetin, Bryan Fox and, for the first time, a female rider—big mountain/big airs badass Robyn van Gyn—this film delivers the kind of unforgettable footage that makes for sweet snowboarding dreams.

Director Greg Stump will be on hand with a special introduction for the showing.

The Blizzard of Aahhh’s is a rockumentary style look at the ski world in 1988. Before this film, extreme skiing existed in small pockets around the world. But after Blizzard Of Aahhh’s, the ski world changed. This is Greg Stump’s legendary movie that put him and, ultimately, the sport of what was then extreme skiing (now Big Mountain Skiing) on the map. The film features Scot Schmidt, Glen Plake and Mike Hattrup. This movie contains some of the best ski action ever filmed in the world at the time. From France’s awe-inspiring Chamonix Valley, Telluride, Colorado, Snowbird, Utah and California’s Squaw Valley. Featuring music by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda, Nasty Rox Inc., ACT, Andrew Poppy, Schonherz & Scott, Alpha Blondy and Ted Musgrave. The film is considered by many the best ski movie ever made and arguably the catalyst which began the extreme sports movement.

@ 12:30pm Saturday Line Traveling Circus

Line Traveling Circus

In the world of skiing videos, there exists big production films, documenting only the top pro skiers on terrain no average human will ever access. On the other side of the spectrum are the 60-second online “sponsor me” edits. In 2008, Line and it’s underground band of misfit skiers led by Will Wesson & Andy Parry set out to document skiing like never before. No high-production camera crews, no heli trips to AK, just a couple of guys and a camera criss-crossing the US in search of nothing but an angled surface to slide on armed with good old-fashioned creativity. It was reality TV meets skiing and the overwhelmingly positive response from skiers around the world watching this FREE monthly online series was mind blowing. From desperate struggles to save money, to ridiculous off hill adventures, to epic days on the mountain, episodes will bridge the gap between reality television and action-packed ski intensity from California to Europe.

Snowvana is committed to fighting climate change and as such, is donating a portion of proceeds to the SkiGreen program that will offset our carbon footprint by 50 pounds per attendee.